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It is rumoured that Gladstone himself aided in the transportation of 32,000 books from his personal collection to the new library, using only a wheelbarrow, his daughter and a servant for help. William Ewart Gladstone passed away on 19th May 1898 at his home, and was survived by his wife and six children.
20 de abr. de 2003 · William Ewart Gladstone. 1809 Born on 29 December in Liverpool, the fourth son (and fifth child of six) of Sir John Gladstone and his second wife, Anne Mackenzie Robertson. 1821 Having completed his primary education, Gladstone went to Eton . 1828 Gladstone went to Christ Church College, Oxford. 1831 Gladstone made a speech at the Oxford Union ...
The foreign policy of William Ewart Gladstone focuses primarily on British foreign policy during the four premierships of William Ewart Gladstone. It also considers his positions as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and while leader of the Liberal opposition. He gave strong support to and usually followed the advice of his foreign ministers, Lord ...
William Ewart Gladstone (ur. 29 grudnia 1809 w Liverpoolu , zm. 19 maja 1898 w zamku Hawarden , Flintshire , Walia ) – brytyjski polityk należący do Partii Liberalnej , premier Wielkiej Brytanii (w latach 1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 i 1892–1894).
Gladstone served as Liberal Prime Minister four times (1868-74, 1880-5, 1886, 1892-4). His radicalism was disliked by Queen Victoria, who described him as ‘that half-mad firebrand’. In 1886, he split the Liberal Party by supporting Home Rule for Ireland, and, after the defeat of the Home Rule Bill in 1893, he argued for the reform of the ...
William Ewart Gladstone was born in Rodney Street, Liverpool on 29 December 1809, the fourth son of John Gladstone, who had moved south from Leith some years earlier. Gladstone senior was a successful merchant, trading in corn with the United States and cotton with Brazil and owning extensive plantations in the West Indies, which were operated by slaves, although he was not a slave trader himself.
Book description. Morley's authorised biography of Gladstone (1809–1898) was published in 1903, and is a landmark of political biography. Four times Liberal Prime Minister between 1868 and 1894, Gladstone had left an enormous archive of letters, papers and diaries, which Morley (1838–1923), himself a noted Liberal politician and writer ...
